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APPLICATION FILED SEPT.9.1915.

Patented May 15, 1917.

srarns ra'rn'r HOWARD J. LAMBERT, 0F PORTLAND, OREGON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 HERBERT It. FRANK, 0F PORTLAND, OREGON.

RADIATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1917.

Application filed September 9, 1915. Serial No. 49,771.

Y '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Howano J. LAMBERT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Portland, county of Multnomah, and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to radiators, and more particularly to certain improvements in the construction and arrangement of hot water radiators, in which the water therein in heated by means of steam or hot air.

The principal object ofmy invention is to provide an improved, self-contained radiator having an interior construction and arrangement which permits the discharge therein of either steam or hot air for the purpose of heating the water within each of the radiator sections, and thereby causing it to circulate therein.

In order that others may clear-1y understand my invention, I have illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings, one practical embodiment thereof, which I will now describe.

Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a radiator embodying my invention with a portion of one radiator section broken outtoshow the interior construction of each section;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through one of the radiator sections;

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of a radiator section, as on line 33 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4: is a cross sectional view taken on line H of Fig. 2.

Referring now in detail to the drawings, my radiator can be built with any number of radiator sections, and these sections can be made in any desired size. In the invention as here embodied, I have shown athree column radiator, each section having a middle column 1, and two side columns 2 and 3. The middle column 1, of each radiator section is provided with partition members 4, extending from connecting openings 5, in the lower part of each section, to a point just below the connecting openings 6, near the top of each section, as indicated in Fig. 2. baid partition members 4-l, terminate at their lower ends in a round form registering with the connecting openings 5, in the sides of each section, and by means of which the different radiator sections are coupled together, as by means of nipples 7 thus forming a separate passageway through the opencolumn of each radiator At their upper ends, said several radiator sections are connected, through their adjoining walls, by means of short nipples 8. Thus it will be seen that if steam or hot air be discharged through the separate passageway 5, through all of the radiator sections, it will pass upwardly between the partition members 4-4 in each of the radiator sections, and thereby heat the water which is in the middle column of each radiator section,'outside of the partition members 4 4, thus causing the water therein to rise and to pass in opposite directions over to and downwardly through the columns 2 and 3 of each of the radiator sections, and thereby set up a circulation in each radiator section. This same operation would be true if steam or hot air were discharged into one of the outer radiator sections, at its upper opening 6, for the reason that the steam or hot air would fill the upper portions of each radiator section and then be forced downwardly between the partition members 4.4.-, of the middle through separate passageway made by the connecting nipples 77, and the lower rounded 'portions of each of the partition members l4., in the lower part of each radiator section. If these partition members t-l become heated, whether by steam or hot air, the water next thereto in the middle radiator column will become heated, and a circulation therein be set up. One or more of the radiator sections may be provided at its bottom with one or more openings, as at 99, which may be used for drainage, or for any other purpose desired. An air outlet opening, as 10, may also be provided with a suitable plug or 'valve therefor, through which to discharge the air from the radiator as it is being filled with water. The columns 2 and 3, and the outside chambers in the column 1, of each of the radiator sections, are to be filled with water up to a height somewhat short of the upper ends of the parsection to the lid-a Elli) tition members 4-4. The usual plug, 01

closure, 11,is inserted in the outer opening of the end sections of the radiator, as indicated in Fig. 1, and the usual means for connecting feed pipes to the radiator, either at thetop or bottom, can be used.

With this construction of a radiator, it willrbe evident that all of the radiator sections are heated at the same time. It is also clear that either steam or hot air can be forced through the radiator by being admitted through the opening 5, in the lower part thereof, and passing. upwardly between the partition members H, and into the upper ends of the radiator sections, or, that said heat can be connected into the upper part of the radiator and be forced downwardly between the partition members 44, and out through the openings 5, thereof. In most cases, and especially if steam is used, the feed pipe will be connected to the bottom of the radiator rather than to the upper part thereof. I

I have thus provided a very simple radiator construction, each section of which is complete and self-contained without any necessity for pipe openings and pipe sections connected into each of the radiator sections for the purpose of giving a heating means within each radiator section.

What -I claim to be new and desire to cover by a patent is,

1. In a radiator, a plurality of radiator sections adapted to 'be coupled together, with means for connecting the same to form a separate passageway through all of said radiator sections, each radiator section having integral portions therein forming a separate chamber in open communication at one end with said separate passageway through said radiator sections, each of said separate chambers being open at its other end within the radiator section, and each radiator section having water containing spaces adjacent the chamber formed therein, and means for supplying a heating medium to said separate passageway and said chambers within said radiator sections, whereby to cause a circulation of the water containedin each radiator section.

2. In a radiator, a plurality of radiator sections adapted to be "coupled together, with means for connecting the same to form a separate passageway through all of said radiator sections, each radiator section having cast therein a separate chamber in open communication at one end with said separate passageway through said radiator sections, each of said chambers being open at its other end within .the radiator section, and each radiator section having water con- Bopies of this patent may be obtainedfor taining spaces adjacent the chamber formed therein, means for supplying a heating medium to said separate passageway and said chambers within said radiator sectlons,

whereby to cause a circulation of the water contamed 1n each radiator section, and

means connecting the opposite ends of said several radiator sections in open communi cation with each other.

separate passageway through said radiator sections and said separate chambers, substantially as described.

4. In a radiator of the character described, a radiator section having a =plurality 'of radiator columns, one of said columns being integrally partitioned to form a wparate chamber or passageway therein extending longitudinally thereof, and means forming "a separate, transverse passageway through said radiator in open communication with said separate chamber, saidchamber being open at its opposite 'end within said radiator section, substantially as described.

5. In a radiator, two radiator sections, each composed of a plurality of radiator columns, one column -of each radiator section being integrally partitioned to form a separate chamber therein open at its upper end, and terminating at its lower end in a separate transverse passageway through said radiator sections, means connecting said radiator sections through their adj acent walls'at their upper ends, means connecting said radiator sections through their adjacent walls and through said transverse passageway at their lower ends, and means five cents each, by addressing the fGommissioner of Patents, Washington, J). G.' 

